Random Acts of Linkage #110

Saturday morning brings with it a ritual we all know well by now. A series of bad jokes through which we dutifully wade so as to get to the selection of “random” links that for which you’ve been waiting for a full week now. Or something like that.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t work? A stick.

What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire? Frostbite.

What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A nervous wreck.

Where do you find a dog with no legs? Right where you left him.

Why do gorillas have big nostrils? Because they have big fingers.

What do fish say when they hit a concrete wall? Dam!

Why don’t blind people like to sky dive? Because it scares the hell out of the dog.

What’s the difference between a bad golfer and a bad skydiver? A bad golfer goes, whack, damn. a bad skydiver goes damn, whack.

I found out there’s a Wikipedia in Simple English. Cool, great for kids or non-native English speakers. My kids like to use Wikipedia, but find some of the articles difficult to understand… this should be better.

Another reason to avoid church… an article on CNN discuses a new PEW survey that suggests “The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists.” I gather they’re not attending any church I want to hang out in. Only one in eight evangelicals were likely to say torture is never justified. Wow. Kind of infuses the phrase, “Depart from me, I never knew you” with a whole new poignancy, doesn’t it? Brian Mclaren repeats the question, What do White Evangelicals stand for? and then follows up with the voice of reason.

Maggi Dawn on a Todd Bentley comeback; the man keeps turning up lke a bad penny. This time he’s rewriting history to suit him a little better.

And this is the point at which Saturday arrived and I stopped adding to the list of links that I keep through the week. Tune in a week from now to find out where I next run out of time and links before hitting the “Publish” button.